WRITING

Books

Inevitable What: A chapbook of poems flirting with witchery, travel, iambic pentameter, and saudade. Featuring gorgeous watercolor illustrations by artist Sirin Thada. Interview with illustrator Sirin Thada at Witch Craft Magazine / Review at Vagabond City / Review at Alien Mouth. Available in limited first edition hardcover, hand-bound and screen printed by Catch Business (Sad Spell Press, 2016), as well as a second edition softcover featuring additional illustrations by Sirin Thada.

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These gorgeous poems are haunting, intimate, incantatory. Sarah Lyn Rogers’s intelligence, sensitivity, depth, and wit exude from her lines. And she does not waste a word. Her control of craft leads to an explosion of meaning: “muted...And yet expansive.”

— Kate Evans, author of Call It Wonder: An Odyssey of Love, Sex, Spirit, and Travel

PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017: A collection featuring the 2017 winners of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Includes Amy Sauber's winning story, "State Facts for the New Age," first published at The Rumpus, and an introduction explaining why I selected her piece. (Hint: Because it is funny and also filled with rage.) Available now.

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I have hit a new low point in my life, crying in front of eight graders. I can’t even look at them. All my notecards have fallen, splayed out all over the floor. I point to my students without looking at them. Bless America, shit.

Today, you are an astronaut. You don’t know yet that like most things worthy of interest, outer space is both beautiful and terrible. You are four years old, and you want to wear a white suit and a helmet.

— excerpt from "Cosmologies"

Three: An Anthology of Flash Nonfiction: A creative nonfiction collection in which each piece comprises three paragraphs or three haiku. Includes my short essay, "Butterfly Weather," and an embarrassing early version of my poem, "Grey" (which appears in revised form in Inevitable What).